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True or false: The Shaolin Temple is located in the Song Mountains valley?
True or false: The Shaolin Temple is located in the Song Mountains valley?
True
True or false: The popular myth suggests that a fifth-century Indian mystic taught exercises resembling animal movements at the Shaolin Temple?
True or false: The popular myth suggests that a fifth-century Indian mystic taught exercises resembling animal movements at the Shaolin Temple?
True
True or false: The Shaolin monks only used their kung fu skills for self-defence and never for warfare?
True or false: The Shaolin monks only used their kung fu skills for self-defence and never for warfare?
False
True or false: The most devastating blow to the Shaolin Temple came in 1928 when it was attacked by an angry warlord who burned down most of the temple, including its library?
True or false: The most devastating blow to the Shaolin Temple came in 1928 when it was attacked by an angry warlord who burned down most of the temple, including its library?
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True or false: The Shaolin Temple's library contained centuries of information about kung fu theory, training, Chinese medicine, and Buddhist scriptures, which were destroyed in a fire by an angry warlord in 1928?
True or false: The Shaolin Temple's library contained centuries of information about kung fu theory, training, Chinese medicine, and Buddhist scriptures, which were destroyed in a fire by an angry warlord in 1928?
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True or false: Shaolin monks became more proficient as fighters and their fame grew as they fought in countless battles over the next 14 centuries?
True or false: Shaolin monks became more proficient as fighters and their fame grew as they fought in countless battles over the next 14 centuries?
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True or false: The exercises or forms taught by the fifth-century Indian mystic at the Shaolin Temple were initially intended for warfare?
True or false: The exercises or forms taught by the fifth-century Indian mystic at the Shaolin Temple were initially intended for warfare?
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True or false: The Shaolin monks adapted the forms taught by the Indian mystic for self-defense and later modified these techniques for warfare?
True or false: The Shaolin monks adapted the forms taught by the Indian mystic for self-defense and later modified these techniques for warfare?
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True or false: The Shaolin Temple's history includes being repeatedly attacked over the centuries, and many of their feats are noted on stone tablets in the temple and used as material in novels dating back to the Ming Dynasty?
True or false: The Shaolin Temple's history includes being repeatedly attacked over the centuries, and many of their feats are noted on stone tablets in the temple and used as material in novels dating back to the Ming Dynasty?
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